Today it is difficult to imagine a Danish traffic network without it, but when a fixed connection between Zealand and Funen came into question in the 1980s, it led to palaver among the population.
At the time, Frode Nør Christensen was the Minister of Transport, and it was he who accepted the ear-beats from the country’s citizens. In particular, the remark that a Great Belt connection would ensure fresh milk from Jutland to Copenhageners was the subject of much teasing. But even if the people were against it, in 1987 he was able to implement the legislation that gave us the Great Belt Bridge. It was also the starting point for the Øresund connection and later the Fehmarn project.
On Monday 9 October, the former transport minister turns 75.
Frode Nør Christensen was both a member of parliament and a minister for the now-defunct Centrum-Demokraterne party.
He became a member of the Folketing in 1981, and he sat there for 10 years. From 1984 to 1986 he was group chairman for the party.
Frode Nør Christensen was concurrently elected to the European Parliament in 1989, where he sat for five years.
Before Frode Nør Christensen became a parliamentary politician, he worked as a police officer in Copenhagen. And he does not believe that all parliamentary politicians must be highly educated.
In the description of the lecture “Why do we really want politics?”, Frode Nør Christensen explains how he believes that politicians should not be better educated than others.
– They must reflect the population as a whole and be in possession of diligence, diligence and again diligence as well as a certain amount of honesty and a great deal of commitment, is written about the lecture on the booking website.
He briefly returned to the police profession after he left the Centrum Democrats and had unsuccessfully tried to enter the Folketing for the Conservative People’s Party.
The happiness was short-lived, however, and he had to quit his job when he contracted Ménière’s disease. It manifests itself in frequent and violent attacks of vertigo.
He therefore became a parking attendant in Holstebro, until illness also put an end to that profession, and he had to apply for a pension.
He applied for a pension at the Social Appeals Board, but the attempt was unsuccessful, until in 2000 he sued the state. Here he was recognized with a degree of disability of 66 percent rather than 50 percent.
Bernt Hertz Jensen /ritzau/
